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Showing posts with label Movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Movies. Show all posts

Thursday, November 20, 2025

Break the Ice while I Pray

There's a quick look at Sato as Daniel is preparing to break the ice that is missing in this edit, right? To see Sato observing how his old friend has been training D is really a key character development for Sato.

Sunday, October 26, 2025

Sly Breaks Down His Iconic Characters

I'm familiar with all but the last 3 of this list of characters. I vaguely remember seeing Cobra - I remember that Cobra was a policeman and that he was after a serial killer; other than those dim memories, the plot escapes me. I do remember that Roger Ebert (of the Siskel & Ebert movie review TV show) did NOT like "Cobra" the movie.
Sly Stallone Talks about His iconic characters

https://youtu.be/?si=lA2lSD5PAhlLl4tX 
https://youtu.be/ s9sM3iSFD-w - Sly Breaks Down His Iconic Characters

Thursday, April 25, 2024

HD Turns 40!!

Some movies get imprinted into your brain and "Hot Dog The Movie" is just one of many on my personal list. Today, on 4/25/2024, I celebrate the 40th anniversary of this classic 1984 movie. 

No one ever talks about it when people list great comedies of the 1980s, which is a shame. I would include it in my Top Ten along with Better Off Dead, but that's a tangent for another day.

To learn more about what was said about this movie when it turned 30 in 2014 as well as my personal opinion about the movie, refer to the following links:

Wednesday, December 20, 2023

2023 Movies Predictions

This was a video that was published in 12-2022 about the movies that were to be released in 2023. I wanted to watch this video again to ascertain how many of the movies mentioned in the video were movies I saw in 2023.
https://youtu.be/ 1NeNsHZDago - 2023 Movies Predictions (using the "Hot/Crazy" Matrix)

Thursday, July 6, 2023

Indy is Still My Hero

When "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was released in the early 1980s, I saw the movie in the theater and wanted to be an archaeologist. I wanted to travel the world, especially Egypt, whose pyramids always fascinated me. It wasn't until several years later that I understood that archaeology is not about going out and fighting the Nazis and retrieving artifacts described in the Bible or having poisonous darts shot at you as you run through a jungle before escaping in a plane with both "Reggie" and the pilot of the plane carrying you to safety. Upon learning that I wouldn't be brandishing a whip and fighting a guy prior to him being slaughtered by a plane propeller, I decided to not be an archaeologist. I also remember seeing the movie for the first time and detecting the bullshit coming out of the government officials who assured Jones that "top men" would be analyzing the Ark of the Covenant that he had risked his life to retrieve.

I will be honest about one aspect of that first movie and seeing it for the first time: I didn't know who the Nazis were or, for that matter, why they were bad dudes. I was only on the earth for 4208 days [11 years, 6 months, 1 week, 1 day] and had just completed the 5th grade. In our American History class, we had talked about the settlers who crossed America to California, not the horror of World War II. I was only able to just see the Nazis as bad guys, not as the murderous regime they truly were.


https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/indiana-jones-real-archaeologist - As Dr. Jones returns to the big screen, a real archaeologist acknowledges the movie franchise's shortcomings while espousing its merits

Sunday, July 2, 2023

IndDay is Still a Great Movie

This article - You Can’t Actually Blow Up the White House-An Oral History of Independence Day - was published two years ago. I love the tagline:


As the beloved film turns 25, director Roland Emmerich, writer Dean Devlin and stars Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Vivica A. Fox, Randy Quaid and more look back at the battle to cast Will Smith, concerns over that famous Super Bowl ad, and a last-minute reshoot to save the ending.
July 2, 2021 6:30am